There's been a spate for robberies on the east-side where the ring road meets the road to Nong Sai in T.Nongbua. Locals attribute it to an upsurge in the local yabaa habit. Mrs tam was across the street visiting a house where one of the old mooban worthies had recently expired and on her way back, witnessed the cops doing a daylight arrest of what she assumed was a yabaa seller on his step-through.

We were questioned by a policeman while eating our dinner in a Thai restaurant in Ban Jang, just off of the ring road on the way to Ban Tad, he asked us if we or anyone we knew had been robbed and warned us that there had been a spate of robberies on Farang houses there too.

The forest was shrinking daily but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.

We were questioned by a policeman while eating our dinner in a Thai restaurant in Ban Jang, just off of the ring road on the way to Ban Tad, he asked us if we or anyone we knew had been robbed and warned us that there had been a spate of robberies on Farang houses there too.

Ha ha! I couldn't get a shotgun in the UK, I stand no chance here, the missus will get a handgun if she can, she's fantastic at clay pigeon shooting, she was trained by an ex UK Olympian who begged me to let him train her full time but to be honest it was just too expensive, it's costs lots of money to buy a gun alone.

The forest was shrinking daily but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.